16 year olds are

mature enough to
vote. They should be
allowed to vote.
If 16 year olds could
vote, they would
become more
interested in politics.
So they would be
more likely to vote
over the course of
their life.
16 year olds have a right to vote. One of the
important original reasons behind democracy was
"no taxation without representation". At 16 you
can get a job and pay taxes and it is undemocratic
that you have no say in who sets those taxes.
Areas such as the minimum wage and benefits
also affect you directly and you should have a say
in these policies.

16 year olds have a right to vote. One of the
important original reasons behind democracy was
"no taxation without representation". At 16 you
can get a job and pay taxes and it is undemocratic
that you have no say in who sets those taxes.
Areas such as the minimum wage and benefits
also affect you directly and you should have a say
in these policies.
There are other ways of
increasing voter turnout,
rather than giving 16 year
olds the vote. For eample,
we could allow people to
vote in supermarkets, to
make it easier for them to
vote.
!eople don"t turn out
to vote because they
are not interested in
elections. #etting 16
year olds to vote
wouldn"t help this$
16 year olds can have se,
get married and %oin the
army. If they can do all this,
then they should be allowed
to vote, and this would help
increase the number of
people voting.
&ou have to have some limits. 'ith this
argument, why not 1()year)olds* The
fact is that you must have limits and
while some 16)year)olds probably are
mature enough to vote, the ma%ority
who are not. There are other ways to get
people involved in politics from a young
age, rather than giving them the vote.
Scienti+c studies have
proven that our brain is not
fully formed until we are ,1.
So we shouldn"t lower the
voting age, we should raise
it$
There are plenty of ways of getting
young people involved in parliament,
without going as far as giving them
the vote. Citizenship lessons in school,
for example, help students get
interested in politics.
Surely young people
aged 16 or 17 dont
!now enough a"out
politics to vote.
#oung people today !now more
a"out politics than lots of older
people. $f youre over 1% you can
"e as ignorant as you li!e and
dont need to !now anything
a"out politics, "ut you can still
vote&
In many areas low voter turnout is most
acute !most significant" in the 1#$%1 age
brac&et. If 16 year olds are offered the
chance to sign up to voting when they are
still at school perhaps voter interest would
increase.